Saledovil
@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 days ago:
Users don’t cost much to keep around, especially if they don’t post. The data needed for the account would be authentication data, and post data, the second of which doesn’t apply to users who don’t post, and the first one being negligible compared to the amount of space available on a common hard drive. So, why not just give them a chance?
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 week ago:
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago:
Idea: Governments maintain a list of entities that are evading the law like that, and then doesn’t prosecute people who are accused of crimes against such entities. The idea being that if you place yourself outside of the law’s reach, you also place yourself outside of the law’s protection.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
4 hours in, can still read it. Agree with your assessment, too.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
It’s sort of a strange approach, because this will leave you with the workers who can’t find employment elsewhere.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
The break even point would be at a balance of 23.08$. However, if the account balance doesn’t expire, buying your own game to put you over the threshold would be checking the couch cushions for loose change level of desperation.
- Comment on US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps 2 months ago:
So you’re a sadist, but you try to convince yourself it’s okay because you only want to torture people you think deserve it. Of course, no one deserves to be tortured.
- Comment on So Starbucks’ CEO commutes to work by private jet? Let’s not pretend the super-rich care about the planet 2 months ago:
I thought the employees get paid by the hour?
- Comment on So Starbucks’ CEO commutes to work by private jet? Let’s not pretend the super-rich care about the planet 2 months ago:
You could go into a Starbucks while it’s busy, and when it’s your turn to order go. “I want a … thing. One of those … cylindrical” Basically, try to waste as much of the workers time as possible, without actually ordering anything. An important thing is that there’s people waiting behind you, so that you waste their time as well.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
That said, it’s misleading and inaccurate to state that neural networks are just statistics. In fact they are substantially more than just advanced statistics. Certainly statistics is a component—but so too is probability, calculus, network/graph theory, linear algebra, not to mention computer science to program, tune, and train and infer them. Information theory (hello, entropy) plays a part sometimes.
What I meant when I said that they are advanced statistics is that that is what they do. I know that a lot of disciplines play a part in creating them. I know it’s incredible complicated, it took me quite a while to wrap my head around what the back-propagation algorithm.
I also know that neural networks can do some really cool stuff. Recognizing tumors, for example. But it’s equally dangerous to overestimate them, so we have to be aware of their limitations.
- Comment on Go already 2 months ago:
0 upvotes 0 down votes at time of writing. I agree with you, though.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
The thing with AI is, what the term today refers to most often is neural networks, which are really advanced statistics. And the thing is, to get more precise statistics, you need exponentially more data. And of course the marginal utility decays exponentially. So exponentially increasing marginal expenses meet exponentially decaying marginal utility.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
In addition, this tactic will result in the best employees leaving first, because they’ll get employed somewhere else.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
So, where does entitlement fit into all of this?
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 2 months ago:
My hypothesis is that they put the gilts up as collateral so that they could borrow money to invest. So, interest rate goes up, and the value of existing gilts goes down, because why buy a gilt with 1% interest when you can get a new one with 2% interest? Pension funds need to add more collateral to their accounts, because the gilts became less valuable.
- Comment on California auto insurance costs set to rise by 54%, new report says 2 months ago:
And with most other things, you wouldn’t just accept it if the price doubled, but with gas, you’d have no choice.
- Comment on California auto insurance costs set to rise by 54%, new report says 3 months ago:
Car manufacturers have lobbied to make America only accessible by car. As a consequence, you now have no sensible choice but to drive everywhere. Imagine if gas prices were to double tomorrow. What would you do?
- Comment on California auto insurance costs set to rise by 54%, new report says 3 months ago:
America was bulldozed for the car, and now the bill is coming due.
- Comment on California auto insurance costs set to rise by 54%, new report says 3 months ago:
Reducing car usage will improve the world
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 3 months ago:
Thanks, but how did the pension funds hedge against interest rates in a way that they had to pay up when the interest rate went up?
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 3 months ago:
Thanks. I’ll check it out in the evening.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 3 months ago:
So, this minibudget included tax cuts, coupled with a massive increase in government spending, which then caused the currency to devalue. Still don’t fully understand how it got this bad, though.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 3 months ago:
What did she do to make people’s mortgages go up?
- Comment on Ah sweet! 3 months ago:
Yeah, same principle.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 3 months ago:
If you’re eating yourself, no. If you have a disease to pass on, you can’t catch the disease, because you already have it.
- Comment on Casual reminder 4 months ago:
He wasn’t even good for the German economy though, the Nazis produces a large GDP growth through massive military spending, they bankrupted the country well before the war was over, and had they won the war, the German economy would have crashed immediately.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
How restrictive do you want to be with the accounts? If you’re too restrictive, there won’t be enough users. If you’re not restrictive enough, the data will be used for AI training.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 6 months ago:
“This world needs no savior, just a headsman to cut her down”. “Erscheine!” (2008) By Eisregen, translated from German.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
The only thing a malicious host can do is to omit information, which can be mitigated simply by using more than one host, which is still cheaper than using a blockchain. You could have each signature include the previous one, which will allow anybody to verify that they have a complete prefix of the history. Host them on, say Imgur and Imgchest, and it would even be free, whereas hosting it on say the ethereum blockchain would cost about 10$ per image (Based on this: etherscan.io/gastracker#costTxAction. I’m lowballing my estimate. If its too high, please tell me by how much, and how you arrived at your number.)
In other words, even in the best case scenario, using the blockchain would only provide negligible benefits compared to much cheaper alternatives.
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
Here’s some picture of commie blocks for reference I guess:
